CDR King Wireless FM Transmitter

I bought this FM transmitter from one of the brances of the famous CD-R King store. They sell really cheap tech products and they are quite useful. The prime purpose of buying this is to hear out my iPod with the use of my car's speakers. I hate dangling wires that is why I opt for wireless devices and an FM transmitter is one thing I dream of having. This is really not a need for me that is why I refused to buy expensive ones worth a thousand or so. But when I saw this FM tuner from CDR King's website I was anxious to buy it since it was so cheap dropping one zero from the pricetag of competing products. I saw one of these in Electronics Boutique and it costs around Php1,500 while CDR King's only costs Php150. What a huge difference and it just fits my wallet's qualification. My Dad bought an FM transmitter from Belkin a year ago for his iPod and it costs almost Php4,000 since it was bundled with a car charger. It does work fine but the bucks doesn't make it a better product for me.

The unit consists of only two switches, one for the power and one for the frequency selector. There are only four channels to choose from that is why I cannot use this on my Dad's car stereo which was imported from Japan. The Japanese stereo's frequency selector can only reach 100MHz while the FM tuner's frequency starts from 106.7MHz. So before buying this device I recommend to check first if your FM tuner if its made from other countries which has a limited frequency selection. The unit gets the source from its built-in standard 3.5mm stereo jack pigtail. This is good news since you can almost feed different types of devices aside from an iPod. It is being powered by a single AAA Battery. I cannot estimate on how long the batteries last since I do not use it everyday but it already served me a couple of times already including three full two and a half hour movies. I use my laptop to play movies in our LCD TV and feed the sound to our Stereo system which do not have a built-in Line-in or Audio-in that is why this device really come in handy. Although the distance of the antenna of the FM receiver should be near to the device to get better reception.

Since were talking about FM you cannot avoid getting disturbances from other sources of noise. So you should position your transmitter to get the best reception. What I did is that I searched for the perfect position of the transmitter where there is less distortion and as soon as I found it I placed a velcro sticker right on the spot and the other to the device so that I would know where to put it by the time I plug in my iPod. Another velcro sticker was placed on my iPod and a spot on the dashboard where I can easily view videos especially when I'm stuck in traffic. Although my iPod Nano has a very tiny screen, the sound is clear and pretty much audible. Another cheap device very well used and has freed me from wires ever since.